600
💾 Save
(ymmel.nl)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
600 points (99.5% liked)
Memes
45553 readers
1219 users here now
Rules:
- Be civil and nice.
- Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
There's another interesting fact here: MS-DOS 1.0 didn't have directories.. To print a text file, you could just do
TYPE foo.txt > LPT1, sinceLPT1wasn't in a directory (like/devon Linux).MS-DOS 2.0 added directories. However, to remain backwards compatible with 1.0, devices were still "global". You could still run
TYPE foo.txt > LPT1regardless of which directory you were in.This is why you can't create files names CON, LPT1, etc. in Windows. They're reserved globally, which is a holdover from the original MS-DOS version from 1983.